Cuisine
Got scoby?
In other communities, one might knock on a neighbor’s door to borrow some butter or sugar. Maybe some milk. But in Boulder County, you’re...
A new wine frontier emerges
Finger Lakes’ wine pioneer Hermann Wiemer released his first wine 35 years ago. While his wines helped the New York region gain critical acclaim, he never curried much favor with local winemakers. And he had little patience for collegiality. In a 1985 interview with...
Boulder restaurants: Old dogs, new tricks
History bellows from the walls. It is told not quietly under some uniform wallpaper, but through a changing and gaudy array of expressive caricatures, balloon words and inscrutable signatures squished and folded over each other like imprints on soil...
Try this week: Chicken Curry Sandwich @ Moxie Feed + Seed
Moxie’s new(-ish) outpost in North Boulder is a breath of fresh air. Walk in and peruse fresh pastries, bread loaves, sandwiches, bags of freshly...
Try this week: Eggplant Parmesan Pizza @ Fringe Pizza
Two things are true: 1) Fried eggplant is an extremely underrated pizza topping, and 2) Fringe Pizza in Boulder makes the best fried eggplant...
A matter of perception
You walk into a roadside gas station on some random afternoon. You’re busy with chores all day. As you’re paying for a bottle of water you catch a familiar blur of shape and color on the candy rack. You buy it and in the car, before you turn the ignition, you take a ...
Four courses to try in Boulder County this weekend
Montreal-style everything bagel with herbed chèvre
Woodgrain Bagels
2525 Arapahoe Ave., Suite E-1A, Boulder,
woodgrainbagels.com
You don’t know you need Montreal-style bagels in your life until a)...
Prince-worthy findings at Smiling Toad
My brewery tour companion and I approached the door to the Smiling Toad Brewery in Colorado Springs with expectations that were ... let’s call them modest. When I spotted the sign from the street, a little A-frame by a skinny sidewalk that read “brewery” and drew ...
Baked on a budget
Driving through Longmont, you might notice a bright flash of orange off the side of Highway 119. That’s how it starts...
Longmont Restaurant Week returns with unique events, dining specials
Longmont Restaurant Week exceeded expectations when it launched last year. Folks at the Longmont Chamber of Commerce, including a handful of motivated Longmont restaurateurs,...
Close enough
In so many ways Louisville is the opposite of New Orleans. I won’t enumerate them here, but think about it this weekend when you have some time. The point is that despite that difference, Louisville — with its growing restaurant scene and population of families of ...
Seeding the future
An inconspicuous little house on the east edge of Boulder seems like an unlikely place for a local food revolution.
Inside are shelves lined with...


















